You fail to consider one fact... people cannot tell the future. Anyone who buys an EV today may easily be in a situation where they need an ICE in the future. The chance is just too great. Maybe one day when Wawa has a Supercharger things will be different.
I don't LIVE at Wawa, Ontario. That is one place where I would have needed a supercharger desperately, lest get stuck. by the side of the road with my wife, two kids, and four cats. So I ask again...how many Supercharger stations are around Wawa Ontario? And no I'm not plugging in at the hotel, because it would be all too easy for someone to come along and unplug it thus stranding my entire family for another day.
If you want to live somewhere where you make the big bucks, traveling will always suck. This is just one more thing that goes with it. Do what I did and get your company to let you work remotely (and be good enough that they can't replace you with 'just anyone') and move to a place where humans are living like humans.
This is why capitalism rarely serves the needs of the consumer, because usually all players in the market have a a common goal that is the exact opposite of what the consumer needs.
Uh yeah it would. My car serves me, I don't serve my car. We recently drive across half of Canada and took the northern Ontario route because we were moving. Gas stations are sparse, but spaced out enough that you don't have to worry about a fill. Set aside the fact that we had four cats, a cooler to eat on the road and enough luggage for a five day trip for four people; there aren't any electric charging stations there. Could I have planned around it? Sure I guess I could have paid $2500 to move my vehicle by train, and another $2000 on airline tickets, split my wife and my trip so that I could put my cats on the plane and my wife could receive them but that would have cost a lot more. Maybe there was another route I could have taken, but that would have required going through the border with pets which is another set of hassles.
Next you're going to say, oh but I'm not the usual case. I'm going to say that doesn't matter. When I buy a vehicle, I buy one that will take me through everything that life could possibly throw at me and I want to drive it into the ground. Cargo space and a stable 4x4 drive train are what I need because I do a lot of highway driving in the winter. When I bought the vehicle, I didn't know I would be moving. You can't imagine the logistics involved when moving with pets even with the ICE. No I didn't want to plan charging stations. If I had an EV I would have been totally screwed, I don't know if the move would have even been possible in the timeline we had.
My wife won't buy a car. Too difficult to hold a large load of groceries or hold luggage for a family on a road trip. When we bring our cats, our SUV can only hold them so we need a trailer hitch for the luggage rack. I don't want to find the fueling stations, I want there to be one where I need it. Could I work around all this if I really wanted to? Perhaps, but why should I spend more on a vehicle that will clearly be making things more difficult for me?
So you are spending more time at finding and being at a place you don't want to be. Wonderful. Try that with kids as they badger you to buy this or that.
Also, I'm assuming your Tesla holds enough luggage for a family of four? Can you attach a luggage carrier?
I have not met one child of military that was not messed up in some way. The school near me that had military kids is the most problematic school in the area.
My cable box is crap. I don't know what hardware these things run on, but it hangs and stops responding to the remote. It seems to work on full screen updating on some slow connection. It makes kodi look like a miracle of technology. There are so many limitations to recording, in that the buffer is only so big and it resets if you change the channel, that it is just barely usable.
Just because you aren't the one making the mistake, it doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can to prevent an accident. Human drivers are expected to account for stupidity. Sometimes they are not successful, but most of the time they are. Autonomous cars will also need to do the same or they will never be as safe as humans. I have seen people on Slashdot claim time and time again that a sensor array being scanned thousands of times a second is so much better than a human, so they should have no issue preventing accidents made by stupid people.
I told you that the school had made it impossible for me to make an adjustment, and then you counter that with 'the point is you figured that out and made adjustments'. It's confusing, and perhaps I took it the wrong way.
It depends how many people are getting hit there. If people are driving 35mph and there are regular deaths and injuries, yes, you should be driving slower.
These bug tech companies only GO to a place that is willing to give up so much that it eats up any benefit for the citizen. That particular race to the bottom is already pretty much at the bottom.
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Why are we talking about garages? I'm talking about long road trips.
And no, "first class" is a whole package, not just a few extra bucks for a big seat. That's not an offering of a bigger seat.
I'm not making any comments about other systems being better or worse. I am simply stating a fact about capitalism.
If there are no airlines that offer larger seats, how are the consumers supposed to speak? By opening their own airline?
You fail to consider one fact... people cannot tell the future. Anyone who buys an EV today may easily be in a situation where they need an ICE in the future. The chance is just too great. Maybe one day when Wawa has a Supercharger things will be different.
I don't LIVE at Wawa, Ontario. That is one place where I would have needed a supercharger desperately, lest get stuck. by the side of the road with my wife, two kids, and four cats. So I ask again.. .how many Supercharger stations are around Wawa Ontario? And no I'm not plugging in at the hotel, because it would be all too easy for someone to come along and unplug it thus stranding my entire family for another day.
If you want to live somewhere where you make the big bucks, traveling will always suck. This is just one more thing that goes with it. Do what I did and get your company to let you work remotely (and be good enough that they can't replace you with 'just anyone') and move to a place where humans are living like humans.
This is why capitalism rarely serves the needs of the consumer, because usually all players in the market have a a common goal that is the exact opposite of what the consumer needs.
Uh yeah it would. My car serves me, I don't serve my car. We recently drive across half of Canada and took the northern Ontario route because we were moving. Gas stations are sparse, but spaced out enough that you don't have to worry about a fill. Set aside the fact that we had four cats, a cooler to eat on the road and enough luggage for a five day trip for four people; there aren't any electric charging stations there. Could I have planned around it? Sure I guess I could have paid $2500 to move my vehicle by train, and another $2000 on airline tickets, split my wife and my trip so that I could put my cats on the plane and my wife could receive them but that would have cost a lot more. Maybe there was another route I could have taken, but that would have required going through the border with pets which is another set of hassles.
Next you're going to say, oh but I'm not the usual case. I'm going to say that doesn't matter. When I buy a vehicle, I buy one that will take me through everything that life could possibly throw at me and I want to drive it into the ground. Cargo space and a stable 4x4 drive train are what I need because I do a lot of highway driving in the winter. When I bought the vehicle, I didn't know I would be moving. You can't imagine the logistics involved when moving with pets even with the ICE. No I didn't want to plan charging stations. If I had an EV I would have been totally screwed, I don't know if the move would have even been possible in the timeline we had.
Oh and how many Supercharging stations are there around Wawa, Ontario?
My wife won't buy a car. Too difficult to hold a large load of groceries or hold luggage for a family on a road trip. When we bring our cats, our SUV can only hold them so we need a trailer hitch for the luggage rack. I don't want to find the fueling stations, I want there to be one where I need it. Could I work around all this if I really wanted to? Perhaps, but why should I spend more on a vehicle that will clearly be making things more difficult for me?
So you are spending more time at finding and being at a place you don't want to be. Wonderful. Try that with kids as they badger you to buy this or that.
Also, I'm assuming your Tesla holds enough luggage for a family of four? Can you attach a luggage carrier?
I think typically most people go on at least one road trip with their vehicle.nn
Think about the number of days you have driven more than 300 miles in one day.
It has been at least one day for every vehicle I have owned, ever; which means it's a good thing I never bought an EV.
I have not met one child of military that was not messed up in some way. The school near me that had military kids is the most problematic school in the area.
My cable box is crap. I don't know what hardware these things run on, but it hangs and stops responding to the remote. It seems to work on full screen updating on some slow connection. It makes kodi look like a miracle of technology. There are so many limitations to recording, in that the buffer is only so big and it resets if you change the channel, that it is just barely usable.
They can hire anyone in the US if they want to. Moving costs and/or remote worker environments are pretty cheap to set up.
So Musk is supposed to be this great businessman but he can't even read this market.
I use an old iphone as a media player at night. If the baddies want my audiobooks, power to 'em.
Might as well download folks, you're paying for it anyway.
Just because you aren't the one making the mistake, it doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can to prevent an accident. Human drivers are expected to account for stupidity. Sometimes they are not successful, but most of the time they are. Autonomous cars will also need to do the same or they will never be as safe as humans. I have seen people on Slashdot claim time and time again that a sensor array being scanned thousands of times a second is so much better than a human, so they should have no issue preventing accidents made by stupid people.
Well then 20mph is too fast, perhaps 5mph.
I told you that the school had made it impossible for me to make an adjustment, and then you counter that with 'the point is you figured that out and made adjustments'. It's confusing, and perhaps I took it the wrong way.
It depends how many people are getting hit there. If people are driving 35mph and there are regular deaths and injuries, yes, you should be driving slower.
These bug tech companies only GO to a place that is willing to give up so much that it eats up any benefit for the citizen. That particular race to the bottom is already pretty much at the bottom.